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Running time. 78 min. Countries. Russia. Armenia. Language. Russian. Mayak ( Russian: Маяк, meaning The Lighthouse) is a 2006 Russian film directed by Mariya Saakyan. Young director by Maria Sahakyan made picture about the war in the Caucasus, but without the war.
Oct 27, 2006 · Original title: Mayak. 2006. 1h 20m. IMDb RATING. 6.8 /10. 815. YOUR RATING. Rate. Drama War. In the 90s, Lena returns to the home of her grandparents in a tiny, war-torn village in Armenia. Lena begs them to follow her lead and retreat to the safety of Moscow.
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- Mariya Saakyan
- 2006-10-27
Jul 17, 2020 · Russian with English subtitles. 78 minutes. An impassioned, unsentimental debut feature by Maria Saakyan—whose life was cut tragically short in 2018—Mayak is a war film that breaks out of the genre’s conventions with a uniquely haunting perspective.
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Sep 17, 2020 · Mayak. An impassioned, unsentimental debut feature by Maria Saakyan—whose life was cut tragically short in 2018— Mayak ( The Lighthouse) is a war film that breaks out of the genre’s conventions with a uniquely haunting perspective. Embattled Northern Armenia at the end of the 20th century—where Lena, a young woman returns from Moscow to ...
Oct 12, 2021 · Mayak (translated as The Lighthouse ), is the semi-autobiographical tale of a young woman returning to her war-torn homeland in the early 1990s, attempting to persuade her elderly grandparents to come with her back to Moscow. Saakyan described Mayak as “a personal story”, screenwriter Givi Shavgulidze alluding to the director’s own life ...
(The filmmaker made the Lighthouse at the age of 27, and she was the first female director to have completed a feature film in Armenia.) We are introduced to the film’s protagonist with her tomboy haircut, naive looks and a generous smile as she sleeps through a train ride.
Set in Armenia, The Lighthouse is a poetic, personal story on the return to childhood | Film of the Week. An outstanding debut feature by the Russian-Armenian director Maria Saakyan, The Lighthouse (2006) is a heart-felt story about home, history, and memory.
